still not happy with unittest.failUnlessRaises
paul koelle
paul at subsignal.org
Sun Oct 10 05:49:00 EDT 2004
Tim Peters wrote:
> [paul koelle]
>>code:
>>print 'this is expected to fail. The "Type" column is unique in the DB'
>
>
> By "this is expected to fail", do you mean that the test is supposed
> to fail, or that the test is supposed to pass by verifying that the
> thing it's testing fails? "This" is ambiguous. I'll assume the
> latter.
correct.
[ snipp ]
> You didn't show enough code so that a reader could guess the answers
> to these questions.
My apologies. In fact, it turned out to be simple as:
self.failUnlessRaises(IntegrityError, certs.Subcacert.new,
**self.client_tmpl)
thanks again
Paul
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